Port of Ravenna and FS Group sign digitalisation agreement

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2024 - The FS Group's Logistics Hub and the Port System Authority of the Northern Central Adriatic Sea (Port of Ravenna) have signed the first memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote digital integration between the AdSP Port Community System and the technological systems of the Hub companies. The agreement was signed by Sabrina De Filippis, the Managing Director of Mercitalia Logistics, and Daniele Rossi, the President of the Port Authority of the Northern Central Adriatic Sea. The agreement will make it possible to initiate a computerised exchange of data concerning the main processes dedicated to rail transport services originating or arriving in the port of Ravenna. Communication between the information and digital systems will allow better planning and management of the railway operations of the various actors involved in the supply chain, speeding up both operational processes, such as manoeuvres or loading and unloading operations, and commercial processes dedicated to shipments, such as waybills. All this will benefit of competitiveness of rail and intermodal transport in the port of Ravenna. A port where every day the logistics hub, on the one hand, handles incoming and outgoing rail traffic with Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal, in RTI with Dinazzano Po Spa, and on the other, operates through the daily connections of Mercitalia Rail. All this traffic today involves the management of information and documents in the traditional way, and the integration of digital systems will make it possible to make huge savings on procedures and improve the overall quality of services. The protocol follows the one signed in February with the Autorità di Sistema Portuale Mar Ligure Orientale, and is part of a systemic vision that considers ports as fundamental hubs for intermodality, and is part of a broader programme that the Logistics Hub is promoting with all port and interport entities. The standard introduced in the port-logistics sector, in fact, is immediately replicable in all the main ports that have adopted their own Port Community System. The objective is to foster, through innovative solutions, maximum collaboration and connection between the various transport segments, to the benefit of an important streamlining of the processes and services offered, the only key to generating value for the industry and the territories. Management comment "The FS Group's Logistics Hub is carrying out important digital projects to promote and develop intermodality between rail and sea ," said Sabrina De Filippis, Managing Director of Mercitalia Logistics. - The protocols we are signing with the Port Authorities are a concrete example of this, making it possible to speed up the modal shift of goods from our ports to the national network and the European rail corridors". FS Group is part of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane. "This Protocol," said Daniele Rossi, President of the Ravenna Port Authority, "is part of the actions that the Port Authority is putting in place to ensure faster and more efficient rail services. The port of Ravenna has reached the number of 9,000 trains per year and having the possibility of an exchange of data on rail transport is indispensable for the optimal management of this traffic. We are the second largest Italian port by number of trains and it is a mode of transport in which we believe and want to grow further in the coming years for the value it represents in terms of sustainability and competitiveness of our port of call". The agreement is part of the initiatives promoted by the Italian government for the creation of the National Logistics Platform (PLN), coordinated by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport through the in-house company RAM, with the aim of digitalising the logistics sector. More Ports Europe news from Ravenna Copyright (C) Ports Europe. All Rights Reserved. 2024.newsdesk@portseurope.com

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